China Anti-Spam Initiative

Internet Society of China (ISC)
has taken the lead in attempting to resolve the serious impact of spam
on China's Internet operations.

Efforts are nascent. They currently focus on creating ongoing, constructive
dialogue between China's ISPs and the ISPs outside of China, along with
the Internet's many anti-spam organizations

The Problems

The problem from the US side is that a substantial fraction of the spam
received in US mailboxes is transmitted from China -- more than 10% according
to AOL's statistics. Even worse are the large number of spamvertised web
sites that are hosted in China.

The problem from the Chinese side is that large swaths of the Chinese
IP space are being black listed or black holed in the US, without warning
or recourse, impacting ordinary users and innocent businesses.